The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-05

from him intuitively. The preacher did not
quail. but said solemnly
The man you air about ter marry had him
shot, and fred the first bullet himself was
a-passln along and they TUX me. and saw hit
all Hit air the truth. Nancy Padgett. and he
dare not deny it,
With this he turned unarmed as he was and
faced the desperate moonshiner, who. inwarily
raging, yet feeling that he had failed glared like
wild beast upon the resolute man of Gof
Nancy stood transixed, with her eyes her
lover their first agonized expression changing to
one OF horror as she realized the full import of
the preachers words The latter now added as
though to clinch his faithful revelations
Y our pore father begged fer his life, but thisn
yer man, he was thur leader and he showed no
mercy. He went by another name then. saw
him afterwards in Georgy, and eff hadn't of iist
lately come hyur among ye ALL | should have
known him sooner
She covered her face with her hands shudder-
lngiy at the thought of her helpless father beg
glng Tor his life at the hands of the man she
his dauehter-had been about to marry. Sud
denly she advanced q step, and said to Nick, in
tones OF hoarse intensity:
Did Won do this! Air thish YER man richt?"
Nick Borun glared around MIN like panther
at bay The helplessness In which his guilty
CONSCIOUSNESS of the futilty of all denials
involved him. Infatuated him. Yet, in his rage,
he avoided her eyes. and now broke out wild
and profane denunciations, fairly rioting, 1t
were. IL the flood of his own passions, to the
anazement of all behoders. He cursed all
preachers in general, and Carney in particular.
He cursed himself for being baffied and Nancy
q
hull settlement" individually and collectively,
and announced that he was "bodaShusly sick of
the hull passed. on EN-"
All this with a drawn revolver in his hands,
while his auditors scattered from around him,
and Nancy, her last hope in him eternally
crushed, -shrank half fainting iCto her uncles
arms, gaspng:
Take me awayl-don't ye let me ever-eyer
set eyes him aen"
At this critical moment there was smul.an-
eous entering of armed men at every door of the
I'D htyf ha Csn
'Drap yer hands TO yer sides, every man
hyur!"
scene of confusion ensued. Women
screamed and men obeved the order of the dread
ed ''revenooers' who. with leveled Winchesters,
blocked each entrance. Nick whiried round,
eager for foe to vent his fury upon. but was
confronted every side by cleaning barrels.
He dared not raise his pistol. The three moon
sinners were fairly trapped Their guns
leaned outside the cabin.
Don't be skeered ladies'" said the chief
deputy marshal. Thurs only three hyur that
want. and after we gifts them you kin jist go
with the dancin' Durn eff don't wish could
take hand"
There was no response to this. and IN silence
two of the deputies handcuffed the prisoners.
AS they all passed out Nick, still burning with
passion, said:
PEARSON, perhaps you and neil meet again
sone day Nance Padgett, eff l did help ter kill
yer pap, was actin under orders agiu deSarters.
I'd hev done we'll by We. but hit air now. I'll
git enthusiastically even with some on we fer this
nights work yet"
After they were gone Nancy raised her head
from Pleas Padgett's shoulder. with face pale
and rigid rs marble.
Let US CO." she said, YEARLY I'm tired aud
i want ter rest-iist ter rest little"
They also withdrew, but it many weeks
before the rest she cared for came to her.
Nearly year has passed It is again the 1st
of May the Great WacAeesa Bald. We pass
the heraer's cabin, and, climbing still higher,
stand on the naked oval summit of this giant of
the AppaiachiapS.
Below us lies the wilderness of forest; above
US the Illimltable sky, cloudless and pure. with
the afternoon sunshine bathing the mighty land
scape in the universal gold of spring. East,
north and south range upon range of mountains
towering beyond each other, until the eye fails
to separate the faint blue of their furthest
outline from the unbounded blue above
In the west broad cultivated valleys, threaded
by winding rivers, with the everlasting mount
aims still beyond. The world lies far beneath
our feet; the supreme isolation of space is above
and around use as
Yet no. Even here we not entirely alone.
A woman sits upon rock with open letter in
her hand. The tall, supple figure, the sweet,
serious face, the penslve ar-are Nancy's She
has strolled UP from the herder's cabin to be
alone with pleasant thoughts. for the rest she
craved has come to her, with a newer delight
that, this time will not be quenched in dlsap-
pointment She smiles to herself as she slowly
reads. Nancy is no scholar, and though Huse
Woodys spelling and grammar have improved in
Chattanooga, it is with difficulty she deciphers
the last of these messages, which have of late
become welcome to her.
~ am nearly through here now and will soon
be with you in the old Bald just to think, that
though II left you sadly year ago, am now
in renewed confidence and hope.
When first wrote hardly dared hope that you
would reply, vet you did, and now
Now you mine alone" says a we'll re-
mem bered voice behind her.
She turned swiftly. it was Huse. genteelly
attired in a we'll fitting garb, with his strong.
earnest face alive with the Joy of this long hoped
for fulilment of his desire AS she rose, con-
fused blushnc yet with bright srnlo, he drew
her towards hms.
f'Huse,"
Nancy"
Then with a mutually hesitating fondness
their lips met.
On the summit of the Great Bald wrapped in
the sweet isolation of love, with the world at
their feet, which they must shortly re-enter and
do battle with-they pledged themselves and
th cir lives to each other.